Automatic Mold Design System Synchronized with Product Design Data and Logical Analysis of Mold Design

Autor: Tomoaki Okamura, Seiki Sato
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Series C. 73:3130-3135
ISSN: 1884-8354
0387-5024
DOI: 10.1299/kikaic.73.3130
Popis: Market trends state that most of product sales happen near the beginning of a product release. The purpose of this research, “Mold Design System synchronized with Product Design”, is to create a system that maximizes the production output. Analyzing previous cell phone production molds, we have been able to categorize mold design factors into two functional engineering elements “Fixed Standard Engineering Elements” and “Adjustable Standard Engineering Elements”. Fixed standard Engineering Elements are parameters and shapes defined as 3 Dimension (3D) models. Adjustable standard Engineering Elements are Experts' know-how and thought processes defined and parameterized as variables in a 3D model. Combination of these 3D models is called the “Master Data”. As a result, using the Master Data we have successfully reduced the lead-time of cellular phone Mold-Design from 60 hours to 1 hour.
Databáze: OpenAIRE